Self-checkout lanes were supposed to revolutionize shopping. They promised faster transactions, lower labor costs, and a ...

Walmart spent years telling shoppers that scanning their own groceries was the future of retail. Now the company is quietly ...

While self-checkout was designed to speed up your shopping experience, certain generational habits can transform a quick scan ...

What one writer gained when he stopped using the self-checkout, and reclaimed the joy of a life with social friction ...

More than 1,000 concession workers at Fenway Park and the neighboring MGM Music Hall secured a new union contract that supporters say provides better wages, clearer staffing protocols, and stronger ...

A massive power outage plunged large swaths of San Francisco into darkness Saturday, knocking out electricity to about 130,000 homes and businesses and leaving self-driving cars stalled in city ...

SEATTLE — Costco has been quietly improving self‑checkout stations and expanding them across the country to help members check out faster. The company has been testing new technology to speed up the ...

What we know so far: Inside a tightly guarded research complex in Shenzhen, Chinese scientists have quietly built and begun testing a prototype of what could become the world's most complex chipmaking ...

SINGAPORE, Dec 17 (Reuters) - In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the ...

Stephanie Gravalese is a food and beverage writer, photographer, recipe developer, and creator of the Slow Living Kitchen blog. Her writing focuses on food, farming, and craft beer industry topics.